Akhil Gangadharan
Founder at Gonkworks
Kerala, India
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Top SchoolAkhil Gangadharan is a founder and game developer with 8 years of engineering experience, currently building cooperative indie games at Gonkworks from Kerala, India. He blends hands-on full-stack development—contributing notable fixes and features to the widely used Kdenlive open-source video editor—with growth and product roles that span marketing, sales engineering, and developer advocacy. At Daily he wore multiple hats, shipping technical content, leading product launches, and closing enterprise deals while architecting a Next.js site and marketing operations. He mentors open-source contributors and co-founded an upskilling platform that helped students build real-world open-source portfolios, showing a consistent focus on developer enablement. Pragmatic and cross-functional, he moves between low-level media integrations and go-to-market execution, making him equally comfortable shipping code or shaping product strategy.
8 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Technology - BTech, Computer Science, Bachelor of Technology - BTech, Computer Science at Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham
Malayalam, Hindi, English
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Github Skills (8)
video-editing10
user-interface10
c-language10
cprogramming-language10
ui-design10
qt10
graphical-user-interface10
qml7
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
KDE/kdenlive
Jan 2019 - Apr 2020
Free and open source video editor, based on MLT Framework and KDE Frameworks
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:18 commits, 1 comment in 1 year 3 months
Contributions summary:Akhil primarily contributes to the Kdenlive video editor, fixing bugs related to audio capture and the user interface. They implemented a new audio capture feature using QMultimedia and integrated it within the existing recording manager. Additionally, the user modified dialog sizes and implemented changes to the titler functionality. The changes involved modifying the UI and adding new functionality.
mltvideo-editorvideoframeworkseditor
akhilam512/QmlRenderer
Jun 2019 - Jul 2021
Contributions:61 commits, 18 pushes, 3 branches in 2 years 1 month
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